BROWNLOW, • William Gannaway, American clergyman, journalist and politician: b. Wythe County, Va., 29 Aug. 1805; d. Knox vale, Tenn., 29 April 1877. Early left an orphan and penniless, he earned enough as a carpenter to give himself a fair education, and in 1826 became an itinerant Methodist preacher. He began his career as a political agitator in 1828 by advocating in Tennessee the re-election of President John Quincy Adams, and in Cal houn's own district in South Carolina he pub licly opposed nullification. From 1838 until its suppression by the Confederates in 1861, he published and edited at Knoxville a paper called The Whig, his fiery editorials causing him to become known as "the fighting parson.° He upheld slavery but opposed secession, a course which subjected him to much persecu tion. He refused to take the Confederate oath of allegiance, and in consequence was imprisoned on a charge of treason, but finally released and sent into the Union lines, 3 March 1862. On the reconstruction of Tennessee in
1865 he was elected governor and served two terms. He advocated the removal of the negroes to a separate territory and opposed giving them the ballot. In 1869 he was elected to the United States Senate and served until 1875, during which time he was a member of the committees on pensions and revolutionary claims. He wrote